The Rose In Winter Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCD EFGFHIHI JKJKLCLC| When last I saw this opening rose | A |
| That holds the summer in its hand | B |
| And with its beauty overflows | A |
| And sweetens half a shire of land | B |
| It was a black and cindered thing | C |
| Drearily rocking in the cold | D |
| The relic of a vanished spring | C |
| A rose abominably old | D |
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| Amid the stainless snows it grinned | E |
| A foul and withered shape that cast | F |
| Ribbed shadows and the gleaming wind | G |
| Went rattling through it as it passed | F |
| It filled the heart with a strange dread | H |
| Hag like it made a whimpering sound | I |
| And gibbered like the wandering dead | H |
| In some unhallowed burial ground | I |
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| Whoso on that December day | J |
| Had seen it so deject and lorn | K |
| So lone a symbol of decay | J |
| Had dreamed of it this summer morn | K |
| Divined the power that should relume | L |
| A flame so spent and once more bring | C |
| That blackened being back to bloom | L |
| Who could have dreamed so strange a thing | C |
Richard Le Gallienne
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